O.P.  Taking away display names is HORRIBLE.
So to my horror, our display names in WLM are now forced to sync with our profile name. Which is a shitty idea. Besides the obvious privacy issues, the following is what I have sent to Microsoft via the feedback site. I'll repost it here:
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(I'm appalled. You guys put out WLM 2011, yet that option isn’t available under "which version are you running"?)
(NOTE: The above was just complaining about how they don't even list WLM 2011 as an option when giving feedback)
Bring back display names. Now.
Setting the display name to our real names by default is probably the worst idea to ever come out of the WLM team. Display names are much more than just a way for us to be recognised, it's a way to express ourselves. All my friends have phrases/short forms of their names as display names, because it's more PERSONAL this way. That's what makes having custom display names so great, you're interacting with your friends simply by seeing what they've decided to set it as that day.
I'm going to change the name under my profile to whatever I like, making it impossible for others to find me through your social features, which makes your social features unusable. Bring back display names, or just get rid of all your social features, because almost everyone I know won't be putting their full name on there just to get their WLM names right.
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